Box construction.



0 W. WARD.

BOX CONSTRUCTION.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 1, 1913.

1,088,493., Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

WITNESSES INVENTOR 0m; nzmm ATTORNEYS GRIN 'W. WARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOX CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

Application filed April 1, 1913. Serial No. 758,122.

To-all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that I, ORIN W. WARD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Box Construction, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

'This invention relates to the construction of cheap strong articles of furniture such as stands, taborets or the like, and also to the construction of storing and shipping devices such as hat boxes, etc.

Among the objects of this invention is to provide means whereby devices of the above indicated characters may be quickly and accurately assembled and which present a neat and ornamental appearance, the same having also the capability of being knocked down or taken apart for purposes of storing away in small places or for shipment empty.

The foregoing and.other objects of this invention will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the many forms which this invention may assume; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of an upper corner of the box with the cover omitted; Fig. 3 is a similar view of a lower corner; Fig. 4: is a sectional view of the same showing the bottom angle strips in plan; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of an end of one of the bottom corner strips; and Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional detail on the line 66 of Fig. 1.

The several parts of this device may be made of any suitable materials, and the relative sizes and proportions, as well as the general design thereof, may be v'aried to a certain extent without departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafter specifically claimed.

in themaking of these boxes I prefer four kinds or types of material or stock, the same including three forms of strips preferably of wood, and each form including one or more kerfs for the reception of the four characters of stock, namely, plates or boards of any suitable material, such as wood, paper or other artificial composition.

The strips 10 adapted for the upright corners and the horizontal bottom angles each consist of a structure having an outside angle 11 of any suitable form depending upon the general form of the finished article, but herein illustrated as being at 90 degrees, and thereby forming two sides kerfed as shown at 12. These kerfs are of uniform depth and space from the outside of the strip. They also are of uniform width corresponding to and for the reception of plates 13 of any suitable cheap and substantially stiff material. The corner upright strips a are sawed, accordmg to the general form of the box, with upper and lower parallel ends a and a". The base corner strips 1) of the same material as the strips a are formed, as shown in Fig. 5, with tongues 1 1 projecting into the ends a" of the corner pieces. Each strip 6 also is provided with a vertical face 15 adjacent the tongue 14 which matches the adjacent vertical edge 16 of the strip a. Leading outward from the face 15 is a mitered plane face 17, and extending at' a right angle therefrom is another mitered face 18. The faces 18 of adjacent ends of the bot-tom strips 72' cooperate with each other as shown in Fig. 4, and the faces 17 of adjacent strips lie in the same plane and against the diagonal face 19 of the corner piece a. The strips 10 from which the corner pieces a. and b are formed are of maximum strength because of the form shown, and by mitering the ends, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, of the strips 6, they are fitted snugly to the lower ends of the strips a and fitted to each other in a neat and strong manner.

The edge strips 0 are of fiat construction having a single kerf 12. The thickness of these strips is the same as the width of the face 16 above described, and the width of the strips 0 corresponds to the corresponding dimensions of the other parts. In order to fit the strips 0 to the tops of the corner pieces a, each end of each of them is sawed to provide a tongue 14 corresponding to the tongues 14 previously described and extending into the kerfs 12 of the corner pieces. Bottom plates 13' and side plates 18 are cut of a form and size corresponding to the form of the structure and dimensions of the kerfs 12 of the several parts.

When the strips a, b and c are assembled in the manner already stated with the plates 13 slipped into place in their respective kerfs, any suitable means may be employed to lock the arts to ether through the tongues 14 an 14. I the structure is to be permanent, glue may be used, or if the structure is to be knocked down, friction may be depended upon to hold the parts together, or any other suitable fasteningmeans may be used. 7

The cover, if used, may consist of a series of strips (1 of angular formation as shown in Fig. 6, and adapted to rest upon and embrace the edge strips 0 and ends a of the corner pieces. These strips 03 are provided each with a single kerf 12 for the reception of a cover plate 13. In cutting the strips 62, single simple miters are used, as shown in Fig. 1. It will be apparent, therefore, that the formation of the boxes may be carried out with rapidity and accuracy when the stock is provided as above described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Let t ers Patent 1. The herein described box construction comprising corner strips, each having a pair of longitudinal kerfs and a dia onal inner face, bottom corner strips each aving end tongues extending into certain of the kerfs of the first mentioned strips, the ends of said bottom corner strips also being formed with faces cooperating with the diagonal faces of the corner pieces and with each other, said bottom corner strips also being provided with longitudinal kerfs, upper edge strips extending from corner to corner .and each having a kerf in the same plane as the corresponding bottom strip kerf, and bottom and side filler-plates located in the several kerfs aforesaid.

2. The herein described box construction comprising corner strips, each having a pair of longitudinal kerfsand a diagonal inner face, bottom corner strips each having end tongues extending into certain of the kerfs of the first mentioned strips, the ends of said bottom corner strips also being formed with faces cooperating with the diagonal faces of the corner pieces and with each other, said bottom corner strips also being provided with longitudinal kerfs, upper edge strips extending from corner to corner and each having a kerf in the same plane as the corresponding bottom strip kerf, bottom and side filler plates located in the several kerfs aforesaid, means to secure the parts together, and a cover comprising a series of angular strips adapted to rest upon and embrace the upper ends of the corner strips and the edge strips, said cover strips being mitered together at their corners, and a filler plate mounted within said cover strips, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ORIN W. WARD.

, Witnesses:

EDITH A. M. CASEY, BEATRICE A. SPEIER. 

